It's been a while since there's a deal on internal harddrives around.
I'm looking for the cheapest way I can populate a home server with a couple of 3TB or 2TB sata drives.
Looked on your usual suspects like staticice and shopbot. Prices seem pretty standard. Almost no difference between getting an internal drive or a usb external then stripping it.
Anyone know of any interesting deals around town?
Cheers.
Those are Seagate right? Where do I get them from?
got wd greens for 150 picked up, depending on how many you want. Brand new. where are you located?
The guy I get them off can post them too…
Oooh… I'm in Melbourne. Pick up from where?
I HIGHLY do not recommend the WD green drives in ANY raid environment. they WILL fail as they have a cooldown mode
which sometimes tricks the raid controller into thinking the HDD has dropped out. Just some advise.
I have a pair of WD Caviar Green in RAID1 in my NAS at the moment — been running for 3 years now and no problem yet (no RAID controller, just software RAID on those QNAP boxes).
If I am buying a new pair today for RAID1, which drive would you recommend? Prefer reliability over size (1TB would be plenty).
I have 3 greens in raid 5, which replaced my previous (smaller) 4 greens in raid 5. Had these for years without an issue.
I am running software RAID rather than a controller though.
I was running 8x WD20EARS in a raid 5 array on a Rocketraid 2320 for years as well with no issues. Come to think of it, that array was more reliable then the 7200.12 array i had next to it.
Me three in both qnap and buffalo,
Qnap raid 5 wd20earx x4
Buffalo raid 0 wd20ears x2
Hmm… I was green drives more for power savings. Toying with the idea of RAID but they're so troublesome if something goes wrong though.
RAID is fine depending on what level and what drives you use, once you use a decent controller, its hard to go back to individual drives. I run 12 drive Raid 6 arrays on Areca 1880ix-24's, awesome speeds (around 800MB's read/write) and 2 drive redundancy, has the spindle count to use my 10gb Ethernet.
I'm also running greens and have done so for ages.
I used 16 in a server running a 3ware raid card, and now 8 in my current one. speeds are great (Both read and write) and have no issues with them.
got them cheap too… 150 picked up (for the 3tb wd30ezrx).
Both my servers were running raid 6.
Warranty is good too (Had one starting to fail and it was replaced).
24/7 home server, wasn't going to spend big $$ on enterprise drives, the greens are fine and use less juice for a 24/7 application.
ST3000DM001's are 165ish each currently, good price for a 7200rpm drive. If not in raid then the WD greens are same price.
The Toshiba 3tb's are due in a few weeks.